Should Utah Be Concerned About Ace Bailey? | 6/27/25

Should Utah Be Concerned About Ace Bailey? | 6/27/25

with the draft last night it was kind of interesting from the standpoint of you actually knew some of the players last night they’ve been around for a little while this is the youngest first round as far as age goes in NBA history going back modern era the ABA NBA merger so you can go back to uh you know the 70 you know or let’s say 1970 average age 19 years 308 days you had 18 freshman taken in the first round you also had eight consecutive freshmen taken in the first round second round it was just a little bit different because you had guys who were actually juniors and seniors and you go “Oh yeah I remember that guy didn’t he play at Florida oh that guy yeah he played at Kraton.” Um and these guys can make rosters you know the guys your drafting potential in that first round the freshman who played one year one and done where you get somebody who’s a little more seasoned and they’re going to be coming in they’re going to be more mature and probably be more accepting of their role and these guys will probably be making you know there’s a few guys in the second round who will make rosters the Ace Bailey situation to me is interesting because he was drafted by Utah and Danny A but Ace Baileyy’s rep said “Hey there’s teams that we don’t want to go to who we don’t want to work out for and I believe Utah was one of those teams in fact one team was told specifically “Do not draft him.” And that team could have been Utah because Ace Bailey out of Ruters he wanted to go to Brooklyn or Washington and there were teams that passed on him 76ers Charlotte but Utah Danny Ang saying “Hey too much talent here i’m going to take you.” They’re not even sure if he’s going to show up normally this is the day or maybe Saturday where the player shows up holds up the jersey and meets with the local media i guess there’s real concern in Utah that he might not be there and summer league starts pretty soon and I think Utah they get started uh before just about anybody there’s real concern that you might have a guy who may not want to go to Utah and then what happens after that and he’s a guy who can play i mean he’s athletic but you know I think he was just or his business people said he doesn’t want to go to the 76 for whatever reason like I think he wants he wanted to go where he knew is going to play right away he can put up numbers right away and those places philadelphia is going to share the ball with Embiid and you know Paul George Maxi you know he’s not going to get his touches um Charlotte kind of a mess you know you got a ball dominant guard there but I mean they end up taking uh Canipple from Duke but they probably would have taken Ace Bailey if he was willing to go there but Utah Danny A hey he’s one of the slicker GMs that we’ve had in recent memory and maybe he looked at this and said “It’s too much of a bargain i can’t pass up talent even if the guy doesn’t want to come here.” Yeah Paul it
it does feel like everyone’s pointing at Utah saying that without saying it that Ace Bailey didn’t want to go there if this were the NFL Danny A would draft him and try to package a trade to Washington or to Brooklyn but they would do that on draft night like back in the day with Eli Manning it wouldn’t stretch over a couple days
yeah you wonder if you’re taking talent but what are you getting with that talent i mean I I love talent but there are times when you’re dealing with talent i love having it i don’t want to have to like h you gotta deal with this and you would think he would be excited to go there but he might say “Hey I don’t want to live there.” Yeah uh these other places I know I could probably be a star sooner like I I understand all that and he was upfront with people but just trying to understand exactly why or why not with Salt Lake and you know the summer league starts July 5th so it starts in California July 5th it starts in Salt Lake July 5th then it starts in uh Vegas July 10th summer League July 5th is not very far away what are we dealing eight days here before he’s got to show up supposed to show up probably needs to show up before that say hello to the media and say how much you love Salt Lake City come in wearing a Carl Malone jersey you know Mark Eaton uh how about a horny jersey
jeff Hornesk
i’m horny for Utah uh who is my guy adam
Keith
nice poll oh Andre Karoleno young Darren Williams
oh okay yeah yeah so that to me that’s that’s that great curiosity of and I’m going to guess they didn’t even interview the guy i’m going to guess they didn’t talk to Ace Bailey this is one of those now sometimes this happens in the NFL and and you know be like a guy will go I I didn’t even talk to these people uh Jacksonville uh Blake Bortles so they were drafting Blake Bortles they never gave you the impression they were drafting Blake Bortles they didn’t even interview him because everybody thought “Oh man is Jacksonville taking Johnny Manzel?” And all of a sudden they go “Lake Bortles?” And everybody went “Wait a minute we didn’t know anything about this.” It does happen and I think he had like 35 touchdown passes one year led the NFL maybe in touchdown passes yes Paul
blake Bortles is still one of the NFL mysteries that bother me i know I shouldn’t be uh making this left turn but his second year in the league 35 touchdown passes now he had 18 picks but 35
i’ll take the 35
four years later he’s out of the sport how’d that happen look at Marvin all right
yes
yeah that threw me off the 35 touchdown passes
i knew he was the quarterback on the team that they were up on the Patriots in the AFC Championship game he was going to go to the Super Bowl 2017
he was going to the Super Bowl eight years ago
he should have been Nick Fos bounced around yeah a little bit

Dan Patrick reacts to 5th overall pick Ace Bailey not showing up in Utah yet to be introduced by the Utah Jazz after reports that the Jazz were not one of his preferred draft destinations